sea. so it's not limited to the baltic region. it has grown. already in the black sea.frankly it's one of the things we're beginning to watch that they develop in the northeast mediterranean. as we see these capable air defense capabilities beginning to show up in syria, we're a little worried about another bubble being created in the eastern mediterranean. so how do we react to that? first and foremost, we have to realize that in peacetime, we need to exercise and operate in this air space to assure that we have and declare that we have open access to the baltic seas and the black seas. you have seen a responsible series of exercises which have been announced and conducted both in the baltic and black seas and those will continue as a part of the assurance measures that we talk about. we need to contest that those are not forbidden spaces. they are open areas of water and air. and second of all, as an alliance, we need to step back and take a look at our capability in a military sense to address a challenge. this is about investment, this is about training and capabili

the black sea, the gulf of finland and the baltic sea. that intercept was captured here, showing the fighter jet, the fu 34, which travels more than 2500 miles, carrying a pay load of eight tonnes of precision-guided weapons >> essentially what it is, is the cat and mouse game played during the original cold war, where each side probes the offenses of the other the. in order to see how it reacts. that game puts pressure on n.a.t.o. outposts like the air base in buddha, where the forces cooperated with the russian neighbours. >> despite the relations with russia, n.a.t.o. used the command center to be the eyes and ears in the sky. norway runs the operation from the military headquarters, which it moved 600 miles north to buddha, becoming the only country with a military headquarters inside the arctic circle. one big reason for the move, to keep better tabs on russia, buried deep inside an arctic mountain, norwegian officer track the bombers. it conjures sup memories of the 1950 surveillance. brinksmanship between n.a.t.o. and russia existe

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sea. so it's not limited to the baltic region. it has grown. already in the black sea.frankly it's one of the things we're beginning to watch that they develop in the northeast mediterranean. as we see these capable air defense capabilities beginning to show up in syria, we're a little worried about another bubble being created in the eastern mediterranean. so how do we react to that? first and foremost, we have to realize that in peacetime, we need to exercise and operate in this air space to assure that we have and declare that we have open access to the baltic seas and the black seas. you have seen a responsible series of exercises which have been announced and conducted both in the baltic and black seas and those will continue as a part of the assurance measures that we talk about. we need to contest that those are not forbidden spaces. they are open areas of water and air. and second of all, as an alliance, we need to step back and take a look at our capability in a military sense to address a challenge. this is about investment, this is about training and capabili

he liked to go on an isolated camping trip in the rugged baltic sea area the soviet union rather than take a free pass to some fancy soviet style resort. by the mid-1970s tolkachev was really getting burned up and deciding he had to do something but what? he told the cia the source of his anger was that everything in the soviet union was going wrong and bad trait he said soviet politics literature and philosophy had been in that quote and mashed for a long time in such an impassable hypocritical demagoguery and ideological empty talk that he couldn't stand it anymore. he's tried to ignore everything in public life. he likes the theater but he couldn't even go anymore to the theater was so bad rate he'd never been a communist party member so he thought maybe i will write up some leafleting go out on the street like a dissident and of course within five minutes he realized that wasn't a very good idea because he could easily be arrested as natasha's parents had been. it's worth recalling that lots of families, millions and millions report apart buys dollars purchase. a lot of people in

borders, and certainly we are seeing this with isa and construction in the south china sea on the chinese side. baltictes appeared to status over the status quo and historically dissatisfied states often work together. they clump together in fact oppose the existing hegemon. this is nothing you should be an entire surprise that at the autocratic states are finding defenses with a large democratic united states but has many democratic allies into their core region. both in europe and in asia. both russian and chinese leaders have openly called for an end to u.s. alliances in those regions. in recent years. so on the strategic side the alignment makes a great deal of sense. but on the other hand, we also see great long-term differences into outlooks for russia and china. china is a growing country, and despite its economic troubles we've seen recently i think most people would expect the growth rates to continue, whereas rush is struggling with its economic problems in the future demographically and on the energy side is even more troubling. so that's going to be a big challenge but so are more focused

trying to dominate europe by using its energy to blackmail the baltics or the eastern european or even western european countries orstr the seaeing challengedn in southeast, south china seas. the united states needs to be strong. and the strong america means wet have to grow our economy at a far faster rate and be energy and food secure. if we have, food security and energy security, no one will be able to outcompete the greatest country on the face of theo earth. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> jeb. me, toby, derek and ryan, we sat down, they said you can ask him a couple questions. so me, toby, derek have our own questions. i will ask them for all four of us. >> is that is the question. >> first question, self years ago we were in small business, starting in pittsburgh. as we look at small businesses today, how do your policies help grow small businesses in america? >> small businesses actually in america for the first time in recorded history may have happened in the 17th century or 16th century, back up where you guys came from in new england. might have been the time where businesses, more businesses closing than

sea that has been international waters up till now. look at what putin has done in ukraine, crimea. i think he has aspirations of similar activity with respect to the baltics. estonia, lithuania and latvia, they're all part of the soviet union. now going back to world war ii, they all have significant minority russian population and they are all 100% dependent on russia for the natural gas supplies. they are all members of nato. we have solid obligation to come to their assistance should they be attacked. question, can we do that, are we capable of putting together the type of operation if we had to? i think putin is bound and determined while the bombings in the white house to take advantage of that. he knows weakness when he sees it. it is provocative, and i think he also had an objective, the desire to undermine nato. i can see them pursuing a strategy, a series of operations basically don't put a lot of pressure on the united states. remember, we're 75% of the nato budget. it isn't an data without the united states leadership and use force to be a part of it. at all that i think will be tested in the next couple of years by mr. putin. he watches, he ca

baltic area and project their power there. we're seeing china build up their land in the south china sea.ally trying to assert it in the sea claiming territorial waters. this is about resources because wars of the future as the world doesn't grow but the people in it do, wars in the future will be about resource. stuart: we cut out resources, haven't we cut our navy to the lowest number of ships is the count to the lowest level since world war ii or something. >> right. since 9/11 we've been focused on nonstate terrorist groups, al-qaeda, as the others are condition growing, china, russia, and in the meantime our budgets are getting cut. we've decreased our military and conventional forces are growing. stuart: how does the military feel about this? i know you're former military. you must be in touch with people in the military. how do they feel? >> military needs money. stuart: but how do they feel about it? >> they feel the focus is being lost. the way we have operated -- and i can't speak for the whole military. i can only speak for myself and the people i talk to. but kind of across th